Eclipse Egit. Checkout creates new commit. Why?

Question

As I understand GIT, when I checkout on commit, I should get its files copy in my work directory, but no new commit should appear. Though when I use EGit and checkout on

Answer 1

You have to work with the History view instead of with the Git Reflog view (see git reflog and toniedzwiedz's answer for details):

1. Tell the History view which history should be shown: e. g. in Git Repositories view right-click a repository and choose: Show In > History.
2. In the History view enable the option Show All Branches and Tags (right button in the view toolbar). Otherwise, only commits of the current branch are displayed.